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101) Lady vengeance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible (Oldboy's Choi Min-Shik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying,...
102) The Juche idea
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70's to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. The story is told through the films she made at the residency as well as interviews with a Bulgarian filmmaker and even a brief sci-fi movie.
104) Hunt
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
The directorial debut of Emmy® Award winning star Lee Jung-jae (“Squid Game”), HUNT follows two agents in Korean Central Intelligence tasked with hunting a North Korean spy within their agency.
105) Oldboy
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Korean
Description
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
106) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
107) Untold scandal
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Korean
Description
Set in 19th century Korea, this version also tells the tale of treachery, lust and sacrifice. Elegant, courtly and sexually voracious young Lord Jo-won's public life of idle nobility masks a not-so-private life of unending sexual conquest. Challenged by his equally debauched cousin Lady Cho to seduce a teenaged virgin threatens Cho's household kingdom. Jo-won accepts on condition that Cho surrender herself to him if he succeeds. But the real target...
108) Treeless Mountain
Author
Language
Korean
Description
Sisters Jin (Hee-yeon Kim) and Bin (Song-hee Kim) must fend for themselves when their mother abruptly packs her things, leaving the girls in the care of their alcoholic aunt without a word as to when she'll return. In a tale of innocence lost, the sisters try to make sense of their mother's absence. But in the meantime, 6-year-old Jin will be forced to mature far beyond her tender years.
109) Si =: Poetry
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Korean
Appears on list
Description
Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide initiates a chain of tragic events that will change her...
110) Oldŭ boi =: Oldboy
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Korean
Description
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Daesu is released and sets out to find his abductors.
111) Mother
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
Korean
Appears on list
Description
A mother desperately tries to overturn her son's murder conviction, find the killer who set him up, and have him released from prison. Includes featurette and deleted scenes.
112) Pieta
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Korean
Description
Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent...
113) Pando =: Peninsula
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best, or worst, of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.
114) The handmaiden
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Pushed to a critical point in the Korean War, the South Korean Army and US Allies are desperate to take back the strategic location of Incheon. The only unit available is a small, inexperienced battalion of student soldiers with barely two weeks of boot camp training. Based on a true story of forgotten heroes of the Korean War, can the student soldiers successfully carry out their mission and turn the tide of the war?
116) The concubine
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
Set during the early Joseon Dynasty in Korea, Hwa-Yeon, a minister's daughter, and Kwon-Yoo, a commoner are deeply in love, but to escape a life of poverty, Hwa-Yeon is forced to offer herself as one of the king's concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately captivated by her. The Grand Prince Seong-won, a powerful, lust-filled megalomaniac, and Kwon-Yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-Yeon is exposed.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.
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